Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 2 | 20 miles of cable will provide 1 000 000 watts of light and 24 kilowatts of sound … for the first ever Wiltshire Festival at Lydiard Park in Swindon . |
| 3 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |
| 4 | Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations . |
| 5 | MERSEYSIDERS were gathering in Sydney , Australia , today for the first ever meeting of ‘ Scousers Down Under ’ , organised with the help of the Echo . |
| 6 | Ben now agrees with Continental opinion that his route Agincourt at Buoux , heralded as the first ever 8c , was actually preceded by Gullich 's Wall Street in Germany . |
| 7 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 8 | The BTO/BASF Garden Bird Survey started in September 1987 as the first ever , year-round study of garden birds . |
| 9 | Two weeks after the first ever pictures were snatched from Bugatti 's promotional video by Autocar & Motor 's Italian editor Luca Ciferri ( 3 October ) , the first photographs of the car in the flesh have appeared . |
| 10 | As an employee of the British Canoe Union and its Director from 1980 to 1987 , Ron was the driving force behind the staging of the first ever triple World Championships to be held in one country in a given year . |
| 11 | MP Jim Wallace made his appeal for such an inquiry on the floor of the House of Commons ; and when the topic was brought up at the Scottish Liberal Democrats Conference , he was supported by Judy Steel , wife of the former leader of the Liberal Party , and herself one of the first ever Reporters to a Children 's Panel when the system began in 1971 . |
| 12 | FRANK SINATRA ‘ 20 Golden Greats ’ 20-track compilation featuring ‘ The Lady Is A Tramp ’ and ‘ That Old Black Magic ’ among the cream of the first ever pop icon 's recordings for Capitol ( '53 –'61); |
| 13 | The Bible will now be available to the estimated 750,000 Maasai people who live in Kenya and Tanzania with the recent publication of the first ever Ki-Maasai version by the Bible Society of Kenya ( BSK ) . |
| 14 | Last year saw the completion of the first ever tenant-led £1.3 million ‘ Passive Solar Energy Demonstration Project ’ . |
| 15 | Virgin retail was among the top three record-shop chains in Britain , with shops in almost every major town and plans to develop a new concept in record retailing , a ‘ megastore ’ , in Oxford Street , close by the site of the first ever Virgin shop . |
| 16 | All tracks have been specially remixed in Q-Sound , a revolutionary technique which supposedly gives a quadraphonic effect from two stereo speakers and is one of the first ever releases to use this technique . |
| 17 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 18 | By 1974 — year of the first ever World Population Conference in Bucharest — there were roughly three population camps . |
| 19 | June 1993 saw a new Wimpey landmark with the announcement of the first ever rights issue in the Group 's history . |
| 20 | All tracks have been specially remixed in Q-Sound , a revolutionary technique which supposedly gives a quadraphonic effect from two stereo speakers and is one of the first ever releases to use this technique . |
| 21 | The six will give their views as part of the first ever children 's museum of the year competition . |
| 22 | NORTHERN Ireland showjumpers have a busy month ahead with many dates on the calendar including the first ever Cavan Indoor Championships , organised by Pauline and Mervyn Clarke . |
| 23 | All the ingredients would be there in Carry on Sergeant and although most of the stock characters would come later , the basic idea was evident from the first ever laughs for a ‘ Carry On ’ film in 1958 . |
| 24 | In the first ever issue of Practical Fishkeeping , December 1978 , we listed the top 25 community fish . |
| 25 | Born in America 's Midwest , Seberg , who committed suicide in 1979 , came to prominence as Jean Paul Belmondo 's co-star in the French new wave classic Breathless and starred in the first ever X-rated movie released in the States , Birds In Peru . |
| 26 | In the first ever co-ordinated airlift of this scale to repair erosion damage , the flagstones , recycled from demolished Lancashire cotton mills , were lowered by helicopter at strategic sites along the Way to be laid as paths . |
| 27 | It was the turn of ‘ The Workers ' Party ’ from Dublin to capture the headlines in Belfast on 27th February last in the first ever IBOA National 10-Pin Bowling Tournament . |
| 28 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 29 | In the first ever referendum of its kind , voters in Amsterdam have supported a proposal to ban cars from the city centre . |
| 30 | Now she 's about to compete in the first ever round-the-world air race . |